Food’s off the menu

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An end-of-season holiday in a five-star hotel in Rhodes meant awful meals, wine in short supply and no teabags for Anjana Ahuja

First, there was the mysterious disappearance of the sliced peaches. The next day, the sausages had vanished. By the last day at a supposed five-star beach hotel in Rhodes, culinary deprivation had extended to teabags. To add insult to thirst, our final breakfast was accompanied by the swoosh and clatter of waiters climbing up ladders and taking down the curtains.

My husband Tom and I knew our last-minute holiday, booked through Teletext with Imperial Travel, was at the tail end of the Greek season — but we had no idea that the hotel would wind down around us.